Friday, January 12, 2024

You’re the Only Playlist in the Next World for Me

Screenshot from the 1938 movie Thanks for the Memory showing a close up of Shirley Ross and Bob Hope sitting on a couch, with Ross looking forward dreamily and Hope looking at her.
Shirley think how dreamy Bob (YES! Bob Hope!) was in the way back!

Coffeetime, January 12, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / The Little Giant / The Message / Riverside / 8.4-5.59 
Joe Gordon / Lookin’ Good! / You’re the Only Girl in the Next World for Me / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61 
Napoleon's Emperors / My Kinda Love / X [Victor] / 5.14.29 
Whispering Jack Smith / Me and My Shadow / Victor / 4.28.27 / with Dave Dreyer on piano
Shirley Ross & Bob Hope / Two Sleepy People / soundtrack of the Paramount movie Thanks for the Memory / Hollywood 1938 / in memory of Bruce Hambro
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Fire, Fire, Fire / RCA Victor [unissued] / LA 2.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Please Be Kind / Kapp / 1958

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 2
Sonny Criss / Portrait of Sonny Criss / God Bless the Child / Prestige / 3.23.67
Lester Young / The Man I Love / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946
Bernie Leighton / Piano Contrasts / I See Your Face Before Me / EmArcy / 8.9.46 
Golden Gate Quartet / Carolina in the Morning / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38
Mae West / Slow Down / Mezzotone / 1947 / with Joseph Chernivasky Orchestra
Les McCann / Sings / I Cried for You / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.61 / with orchestra arranged & directed by Gerald Wilson / RIP McCann

set 3
Les Spann / Gemini / Smile / Jazzland / 12.16.60
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 10.14.58
Harry James & his Orchestra / I’ll Buy That Dream / Columbia / 1945 / vocal = Kitty Kallen
Delta Rhythm Boys / St. Louis Blues; Ev’y Time We Say Goodbye (flip side, with celeste!) / RCA Victor / 4.24.47
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I See Your Face Before Me / Bethlehem / 10.55 

set 4
Gerry Mulligan / Carson City Stage / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.24.53 
Russ Garcia / Four Horns and a Lush Life / Lover Come Back to Me / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.14.55
King Cole Trio / Two Against One / Standard Transcription / 2.39 / NKC p & celeste, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Margaret Whiting / A Tree in the Meadow / Capitol / Hollywood 5.25.48 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra / for Jim in Dedham
King Cole Trio / Undecided / Standard Transcription / 4.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Don’t Let Me Lose this Dream / Atlantic / live at Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970
Golden Gate Quartet / Lead Me On and On / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last soulful song
Major Lance / You’ll Want Me Back / Okeh / Chicago 1966